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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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HPE to Build 24 Petaflop Supercomputer with 64-Core AMD EPYC Processors for HLRS
HPE is now under contract to build and install a new AMD-powered supercomputer at HLRS in Germany. Called "Hawk, the new computing system will be 3.5 times faster...
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Video: Overview of DDN’s Accelerated, Any-Scale AI
In this video from DDN booth at SC18, Kurt Kuckein from DataDirect Networks presents an overview of DDN A3i: (Accelerated, Any-Scale AI). "Engineered from the ground...
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Video: Summit Early Science Video Series: Imaging the Earth’s Interior
In this video, Jeroen Tromp from Princeton University describes how GPUs power 3D wave simulations that help researchers better understand the earth's interior....
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Why InfiniBand rules the roost in the TOP500
In this special guest feature, Bill Lee from the InfiniBand Trade Association writes that the new TOP500 list has a lot to say about how interconnects matter for...
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Video: Will Persistent Memory solve your Performance Problems?
In this video, Thomas Wilhelm shows software developers how they can optimize their application in order to identify if they can benefit from Persistent memory....
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Book Review: The Model Thinker – A new way to look at Data Analysis
In this special guest feature, Carol Wells reviews the new book by Scott E. Page entitled The Model Thinker. "A hands-on reference for the working data scientist...
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Apply Now for the ISC High Performance Travel Grant Program
The ISC High Performance Travel Grant Program is now open for applications. Introduced in 2017, the Grant enables university students and young researchers to be...
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Video: Illustris Simulation Depicts the Birth of the Universe
In this video, the "Illustris" scientific simulation begins just 12 million years after the Big Bang and illustrates the formation of stars, heavy elements, galaxies...
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World’s Fastest Supercomputer Now Running Production Workloads at ORNL
The world's fastest supercomputer is now up and running production workloads at ORNL. "A year-long acceptance process for the 200-petaflop Summit supercomputerWorld...
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Call for Participation: ISC 2019 in Frankfurt
The complete ISC 2019 contributed program is now open for submissions. The event takes place June 16–20, 2019, in Frankfurt, Germany. "We encourage engineers, scientists...
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Video: Optimizing Wind Power with the ExaWind Project at NREL
In this video, Scott Gibson discusses the ExaWind project for windmill simulation with Michael Sprague from NREL. ExaWind is part of the ECP, which is buildingVideo...
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IBM’s Plan to bring Machine Learning Capabilities to Data Scientists Everywhere
Over at the IBM Blog, IBM Fellow Hillary Hunter writes that the company anticipates that the world’s volume of digital data will exceed 44 zettabytes, an astounding...
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Violin Systems Acquires X-IO Storage on Road to Recovery
Today Violin Systems announced the appointment of a new CEO and the acquisition of X-IO Storage. "This has been a year of rebirth, of growth and of tremendous success...
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World’s First 7nm GPU and Fastest Double Precision PCIe Card
AMD recently announced two new Radeon Instinct compute products including the AMD Radeon Instinct MI60 and Radeon Instinct MI50 accelerators, which are the first...
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Simulating nature with the new Microsoft Quantum Development Kit chemistry library
In this video, the Microsoft Quantum Team describes how Quantum computers have the potential to solve the world’s hardest computational problems and alter the economic...
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Atos to Build Bull Supercomputer for C-DAC in India
Today Atos announced a HPC announced plans to deploy a large-scale supercomputer at C-DAC in India. This contract is part of the NSM (National Supercomputing Mission)...
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NVIDIA Sets Six Records in AI Performance
This week NVIDIA announced that the company has broken a total of six performance records on a broad set of AI benchmarks. As a full suite, the benchmarks cover...
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Interview: The Importance of Message Passing Interface to Supercomputing
In this video, Mike Bernhardt from the Exascale Computing Project catches up with ORNL's David Bernholdt at SC18. They discuss supercomputing the conference, his...
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Intel Pushes the Envelope at SC18
Intel has a long history of making important announcements at the annual Supercomputer shows, and this year was no exception. This guest post from Intel coversIntel...
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